Innovative Use of GIS competition is sponsored by the Department of Geography, GIS Graduate Certificate Program and the Davis Library Research Hub every other year. In addition to the monetary awards, the first place undergraduate – Kathleen Lowry, a … Read more
Professor Pickles presented the keynote address –“The Challenge of Territory”– to over 500 high-school student attendees at the MUNCH XVII Model United Nations Conference, Chapel Hill, Thursday, February 23rd, 2017.
Department of Geography organizes a conference on Feminist Geography, to be held May 18-20, 2017. Feminist Geographers will join us from around the world to ask how feminist theory travels in geography, what borders feminism breaks down or reinforces, and … Read more
Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover and Climate Changes on the Gross and Net Primary Productivity in the Southeastern USA., PI: Conghe Song (UNC Chapel Hill); Co-I Taehe Hwang (Indiana Univ.) and Kim Novick (Indiana Univ); Collaborators: James Vose (US Forest Service) and … Read more
The American Association of Geographers statement on President Trump’s Executive Order http://news.aag.org/2017/01/aag-statement-on-president-trumps-executive-order/
Chancellor Folt makes statement about executive order http://chancellor.unc.edu/2017/01/29/message-from-chancellor-folt-response-to-executive-order/
UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) unanimously passed the following resolution in support of the University community (including faculty) who are affected by the recent Executive Order http://facultygov.unc.edu/?wysija-page=1&controller=email&action=view&email_id=22&wysijap=subscriptions&user_id=1684
Dr. Gökarıksel will receive the Chapman Family Teaching Award – http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/twenty-four-earn-2017-university-teaching-awards-carolina/. Dr. Gökarıksel will be recognized during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Pittsburgh on Jan. 31.
Graduate student Priscilla will receive the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants- http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/twenty-four-earn-2017-university-teaching-awards-carolina/. Priscilla will be recognized during halftime of the men’s basketball game against Pittsburgh on Jan. 31.
Ashely Ownbey, Geography Graduate and winner of the Annual McNally Award for Excellence in Geography (class of 2014), has published an article based on her senior thesis in the Journal of Cultural Geography. The article, entitled ‘The “who” and “how” of place marketing: The role … Read more
